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Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World, 1st ed. 2019
Creating a Cosmopolitics of Change
Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability Series
Language: EnglishSubjects for Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World:
Publication date: 08-2020
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 07-2019
216 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
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This edited volume constructs a ?cosmopolitics? of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, and how we can take action to prevent it. By comparing scientific and indigenous accounts of the same phenomenon, contributors seek to broaden Western understandings of what climate change constitutes. In this context, existing cosmologies are challenged, opening spaces for hegemonic narratives to enter into conversation with the non-modern and construct ?worlds otherwise??situations of world change and renewal through climate change. Bold brings together perspectives from Central America, Mexico, the Amazon, and the Andes to converse with scientific narratives of climate change and create cracks that bring new worlds into being for readers.
Rosalyn Bold is a Research Associate in the Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability at University College London, UK.